Microsoft Vista will ignore your monitor!

Dashken · 6th Oct 2005, 11:34 AM

Quote:

A REPORT said an implementation of a system wide content protection scheme in Microsoft Vista will mean many screens will display a "monitor revoked" message.

According to an article in PC World, the scheme called PVP-OPM is intended to stop pirated disks from displaying their content.

But a side effect means that the same scheme will lock out displays which don't support PVP-OPM.

The same report, here, claims that there are very few wide screen desktop monitors which will support the scheme. So even if you're law abiding you're going to be in trouble.

And Blu-ray and Toshiba HD DVDs need Windows Vista, while Windows XP won't support HDCP, Intel's "high bandwidth digital content protection". So there's no point sticking with your old OS.

Oh yes, the OS times they are a changing. And the hardware manufacturers are no doubt rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect.

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26703

1031982 · 6th Oct 2005, 01:16 PM

Another reason NOT to get Vista. So far, I have skipped every other OS, and I have been fine.

PsYkHoTiK · 6th Oct 2005, 01:25 PM

Means more bucks for other people. And tightening of belts on the user's end.

hyper_raider · 6th Oct 2005, 02:43 PM

Thats it..its time to slap out the debian linux cd

peaz · 7th Oct 2005, 09:53 AM

That's one really werid move in the industry IMHO. encrypted video streams to an output display. WTF man.

Donutey · 7th Oct 2005, 10:21 AM

i agree... skip this os...
hopefully, but not likely, open source os's will support next gen dvd's without all the useless annoying stuff...

looks like microsoft is gonna lose some market share ( smiles gleefully) this is just like the "product activation" on the Office XP, 2003 i reinstalled windows ( not reformatting ) and the activation rejected my perfectly legal copy... and i hadn't changed my specs... got it fixed by calling microsoft ( not hard

) but really annoying that i had to waste my time that way...

vista is/will divide the computer market into two classes, not based on performance, but on how well the hardware manufacturer sucks up to microsoft's standards...

ubuntu kubuntu

Phut · 7th Oct 2005, 10:25 AM

or mac osx x86

depending on what flavour of alternative OS you like

djspinnet · 7th Oct 2005, 10:34 AM

*djspinnet is glad she gave up on Windows a long time ago*

Adrian Wong · 10th Oct 2005, 01:49 AM

Shoot me, but IMHO, instead of wasting so much time and money, and frustrating so many users, why don't they just sell their DVDs at a lower price, like say RM 20-30 (USD 5-8)?

Even if that's 2-3X more than what the pirates are selling their discs at, I think most people will prefer to buy original DVDs at that price. Right now, they are spending more and more money on ever more restrictive measures, all of which requires them to extract more money from the consumer.

Who wins in the end? Lawyers...

zy · 10th Oct 2005, 02:21 AM

djspinnet using linux ?

6th Oct 2005, 01:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
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hyper_raider shutdown -h now Join Date: 15 Aug 2003 Location: in front of my pc Posts: 6,010 Reputation: 1078 Rep Power: 23	Thats it..its time to slap out the debian linux cd

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Adrian Wong Da Boss Join Date: 10 Oct 2002 Location: In front of my ASUS F8V notebook! Posts: 33,137 Reputation: 3730 Rep Power: 78	Shoot me, but IMHO, instead of wasting so much time and money, and frustrating so many users, why don't they just sell their DVDs at a lower price, like say RM 20-30 (USD 5-8)? Even if that's 2-3X more than what the pirates are selling their discs at, I think most people will prefer to buy original DVDs at that price. Right now, they are spending more and more money on ever more restrictive measures, all of which requires them to extract more money from the consumer. Who wins in the end? Lawyers... __________________ Dr. Adrian Wong Tech ARP \| Blog @ Tech ARP \| The Free Trade Zone DYKT : The only offshore account I have is at the sand bank? We need PROGRAMMERS and TECHNICAL WRITERS! Contact us if you are a hot shot programmer or technical writer! My items for sale : 50x SD Card \| Memory Stick PRO \| Cyclone Energy Saver \| Seiko SS watch \| Tiger/Carlsberg beer jugs \| Travel Speakers \| Motorola V600 \| Nokia N90 SOLD! \| New Lowepro Mini Trekker AW Other items for sale @ the FTZ : Zalman CNPS9500 LED @ $20 \| Zalman CNPS7700 Cu @ $20 \| Zalman CNPS7000 Cu @ $20 \| Swarovski bracelet watches \| Dell 17" LCD \| Hi-Fi speakers \| English DIVX movies \| HP LaserJet toners! \| Office chairs

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